Characterization of complete mitochondrial genome of a new identification of Gymnothorax minor (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) in China. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhang, Liyan; Zhou, Zhidong; Chen, Shiquan; Li, Haiping; Zhang, Yueping
• Is Part Of: Mitochondrial DNA. Volume 4:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 686
• Page End: 687
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Mitochondrial genome -- Gymnothorax minor -- phylogenetic relationship -- species taxonomy; Mitochondrial DNA -- Periodicals; 572.869
• DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1573112
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2380-2359

Abstract

Abstract: Gymnothorax minor has been often confused with G. reticularis because of the similar morphological characteristics. The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of G. minor is 16, 575 bp in length, including 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, and two non-coding regions (CR and OL ). All the protein-coding genes use ATG as start codon except COI using GTG. Most of them have complete stop codon as stop codon while COII and ND4 use T(aa). Phylogenetic analysis showed G. minor first clustered together with congeneric species and formed a monophyly in species of the genus Gymonthrax .